Bag or receptacle



Nov. 10, 1925.

. D. KARRON BAG OR RECEPTACLE Filed July 5. 1924 INVENTOR fiavmflkerr'olz M ATTORNEY Patented Nov. lfl, i923.

UNITED STATES DAVID KARRON', OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BAG .OR REGEPTACLE.

Application filed July 5, 1924. Serial No. 724,523.

To all 10. mm it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID KARRON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented rertain new and useful Improvements in Bags or Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bags or receptacles and more particularly to vanity cases or bags of that type having two hingedly connected frame sections to which the walls of leather, silk or other flexible material are secured, and it is the primary object of my present improvements to provide in an article of this character laterally extending heads, which may be of various ornamental shapes, at the free ends of the frame sections which are clasped together when the bag or receptacle is closed.

As is well known in the art, the hingedly connected frame members are of U shape or channel form and the leather or fabric material is secured at its edges in the chan nels thereof. Heretofore, the clasp carrying parts have been fixed to the upper or free ends of said frames and extend vertically therefrom or in parallel relation with the frame members and it has not been possible.

to bend such channeled frame members 1n a direction transverse to the channels thereof so that the clasp carrying parts could be attached thereto toextend laterally or in a horizontal plane at right angles to the plane of the frame members.

It is the primary object and purpose of my present improvements to provide a frame of this latter construction wherein the channel frame members are angularly bent transversely of the channels and in a plurality of directions and to secure upon such bent laterally projecting parts of the frame memhere, a clasp carrying head or end plate of ornamental form.

Another novel feature of my present improvements resides in the provision of simple and effective means for quickly and securely fixing the head plates to the respective frame members.

lVith the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the improved bag or receptacle and in the form, construction and relative arrangement of the several parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and subsequently incorporated in the subjoined claim.

In the drawing wherein I have illustrated one simple and practical embodiment of the invention and in which similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views:

Figure 1 is a side elevation showing one form of my new bag or receptacle;

Figure 2 is a an edge View thereof;

Figure 3 is a top plan view as indicated by the line 33 of Fig. 1; and

Figure 4 is a sectional view taken on the line H of Figure 3.

For purposes of illustration, 1 have shown the two frame members 5 of similar form or shape, each of said frame members being produced from a single length or strip of sheet metal of channeled cross-sectional form, as seen in Figure 4 of the drawings. As herein shown, I have illustrated each channel frame member as of elongated inverted U-shaped form, the legs 6 thereof being bent to provide parallel end portions 7 widely spaced apart and the parts 7 thereof which are connected by the intermediate portion of the frame member being relatively close to each other so as to provide a contraetedsection. The widely spaced end portions 7 of the two frame members are pivotally connected together in the usual manner as at 8.

The frame parts 7 are connected by the intermediate portion of the channel strip indicated at 9, such intermediate portion of the frame strip being bent transversely of the channel therein so that said intermediate portion is projected laterally from one side of the plane of the legs 6 in angular or other ornamental configuration as more clearly shown in. F igure 3 of the drawings. I have succeeded in producing such an ornamental angular bend in the intermediate portion of the frame strip without closing the channels of the sheet metal strip so that the edges of the leather, silk or other flexible material shown at 10, may be engaged in said channels and the opposite side walls thereof then tightly clinched upon the material.

To the angularly bent intermediate portion 9 of each of the frame parts a head plate ll is attached. For purposes of illustration, I have shown a very simple form of the device wherein the intermediate part 9 of the frame strip is bent to provide portions extending at right angles to each other, and therefore, the head plate ll will be of substantially triangular shape in plan. This Ill) head plate has a marginal flange 12 extending along the outer edges thereof Which are engaged against the outer sides of the an gular portions 9 of the frame. Said angular portions of the frame and the flangeslQ are provided with openings to register With each other and receive suitable fastening elements 13 whereby said head plates are pern'ianently and rigidly fixed to the respective frame members. At its other or inner edge, the head plate 11 has a relatively narrow do'vvnturned flange let formed thereon. Adjacent to tl ese flanges of the head plates, the complementary clasp parts 15 and 16 '='espectively, are suitably secured thereto so hat when the bag or receptacle is closed and aid clasp parts interlocked With each other shovel. in Fig. at of the drawing, the s it on the head plates are held in close mg contact against each other. To the U: rep

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foregoing description considered e on with the accompanying draweral novel, structural features of improvements will be readily The es; ntial and distinguishing clniracteristic thereof resides in the laterally bent angularly disposedintermediate portions 9 of the respective frame members to which the ornamental head plates '11 of corresponding configuration are rigidly secured so that said plates provide the flexible bag body with a flat horizontally extended top when the bag is closed and thereby greatly adds to the ornamental appearance of the bag. It will be understood of course that the frame members 5 need not necessarily be of the particular shape shown in Fig. .L of the drawings, but they might be otherwise formed to provide a bag of other part a suitable carrying-strap 1T shapes or dimensions and the angular parts 9 of said frame members might alsoobviously be bent into other outline form than that shown so that head plates 11 of other ornamental forms might be employed. It is therefore to be understood that in carrying out my invention in practice, I do not desire to be limited to the exact form or construction of the several elements as herein disclosed, but reserve the privilege of adopting all such legitimate modifications therein as may be fairly considered Within the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

1 claim:

A bag or receptacle of the class described, comprising two frame members each formed from a single channel sheet metal strip, said strip being bent'to provide spaced'legs and the corresponding legs of'said frame members being pivotally connected to each other at their extremities, and each of said frame members having an intermediate portion angularly bent to extend laterally in a plane at-right angles tothe plane of said legs, a head plate for each of said frame members adapted to be engaged upon the edge of the angularly bent intermediate portion of said frame member and having flanges disposed against the outer sides of said angularly bent portion, fastening means extending through said flanges and the frame member, the opposed edges of said head plates also having angular flanges thereon for abutting contact with each other WllGIlllllB bag is closed, and complen'ientary clasp elements fixed to said head plates adjacent to the latter flanges thereof.

lntestimony that I claim theforegoing as my invention, l have signed my name hereto.

DAVID 'KARRON. 

